General Conference 2016

General Conference weekend was absolutely wonderful? When is it not wonderful? Friday night, I spiritually prepared for Conference by attending the Provo City Center Temple. What a BEAUTIFUL house of the Lord!

On Saturday, we had a delicious breakfast of delicious homemade cinnamon rolls, bacon, and sausage. Then, we chilled in our apartment for both sessions. On Sunday, we chilled in our apartment for the first session and then Koa had an unexpected surprise for me: two extra tickets to the Sunday afternoon session from Brent. Koa and I went up and were able to watch the last session in the Conference center. What an incredible, amazing spiritual experience. I received so much wonderful spiritual guidance and felt my testimony reaffirmed that Jesus is the Christ, that we have a living prophet and apostles, and that this is Christ's true church. 

On Sunday, I also made the most delicious chocolate chunk banana bread--we all loved it! The recipe calls for three bananas, so if you want more banana flavor, I recommend adding more. 

Here's the recipe from Bake with Christina adapted from Smitten Kitchen

Double Chocolate Banana Bread

• 3 medium large ripe bananas

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted

• 3/4 cup brown sugar

• 1 large egg

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 1 tsp baking soda

• 1/4 tsp salt

• 1 cup all purpose flour

• 1/2 cup Hershey's Special Dark Cocoa Powder

• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

• milk chocolate chips, to garnish

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9x5" loaf pan with nonstick baking spray.

1. Mash the bananas in a large bowl. Whisk in the melted butter, brown sugar, egg, and vanilla extract. Sift in the baking soda, salt, flour, and cocoa powder and stir mixture with a wooden spoon just until incorporated. Then gently stir in the chocolate chips.

1. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and evenly sprinkle the chocolate chips. Bake for 50-55 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Keep bread wrapped tightly at room temperature for up to 4 days. Enjoy!

What a blessed weekend it has been!